The Green Chemistry Initiative is a ten-year, $196.25 million Initiative aiming to transform the trajectory of basic research in green chemistry.
The history of green chemistry has focused on discovering and designing higher-performing chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate harm to humans and the environment from hazardous substances. Inspired by Gordon Moore’s background in chemistry, this is the first chemistry-focused Initiative at the Foundation. The ten-year, $196.25 million Initiative brings the Foundation’s total support of green chemistry to over $200 million.
The Initiative design aims to expand scientific capacity by enabling new ways of organizing research teams and incentivizing cross-team collaboration. This approach creates a new model for chemistry research through two complementary strategies – fostering multidisciplinary, multi-institutional scientific collaboration and engaging the broader chemical enterprise. Through these strategies, the Initiative:
- Supports global networks across fields including chemistry, materials science, engineering, toxicology, and biology.
- Advances novel insights into dynamic and adaptable molecules and materials, electrostatic interactions, and complex mixtures.
- Develops innovative methods for measuring toxicity and a new open, shareable framework for materials science toxicology to improve molecular design,
- Encourages the use of Initiative-supported scientific knowledge to inform downstream decisions and applications.
The Initiative will focus on four key research areas that align with the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and where funding can make a significant difference.
- Understanding and designing molecular dynamics. Being able to make our molecules and materials responsive, dynamic, adaptable and obedient.
- Control and design of intermolecular interactions. Using weak forces between molecules, similar to nature, to design things with superior performance with less energy.
- Monitoring and controlling interactions and reactions in complex mixtures. Finding ways to control chemical interactions and reactions in complex mixtures like wastewater and formulations.
- Designing and developing new approaches to toxicological assessment and design for reduced hazard. Creating faster ways to measure how and why chemicals and materials are toxic can inform and empower the design of less hazardous substances
By building global networks of scientists collaborating, we expect the research will lead to the implementation of discoveries contributing to advances in chemistry that will provide higher-performing materials and molecules that have superior function without causing adverse consequences to people, prosperity, or the planet.
At this time, the Green Chemistry Initiative is not accepting unsolicited proposals.
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